Connecter support



y 1933- H. DOLIER, JR 1,908,587

CONNECTER SUPPORT Filed May 17, 1929 gwventoo Hen/ I) Olver; J2},

Patented May 9, 1933 UNETE OONNEGTER SUPPORT Application filed May 17,

This invention relates to connecter supports, and more particularly relates to a connecter of the separable type having plugging contacts, combined with means for supporting the connecter from an overhead support and at the same time for supporting a lighting fixture or the like from below the connecter.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a device of this character wherein a hook or like member is employed adapted to be secured to the ceiling and to in turn have the chain or other support of a lighting fixture secured thereto, which member is formed so as to receive and releasably support the connecter, and at the same time to enable the connecter to be reversibly supported, so that either section thereof can be connected to or supported by the hook, or like member.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a connecter, showing the supporting member in side elevation;

Fig. 2 is a view partly in side elevation and in section, showing the lower connecter section released from the upper section;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4; is a side elevation, showing the hook reversed and supporting the lower section as distinguished from Figs. 1 to 3, wherein the hook is supporting the upper section, and

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a modified form of the invention.

In proceeding in accordance with the pres ent invention, a connecter is employed which has two separable sections, the sections designated 1 and 2 having the usual plugging contacts. Each section is formed with a transverse web preferably of integral construction, which webs, designated 3 and 4, are provided with elongated slots 5 and 6 thereby providing end walls. It will be understood in this regard, that the two webs and slots are identical in construction for a purposelater described.

A lighting fixture suspension member 7, received through the connecter-s is provided, and which may be in the form of a section of wire which is bent to form a hook 8 on one 1929. Serial No. 363,898.

to the inherent resiliency of the wire can be forced or snapped into engagement withthe end walls of-the slots 5 or 6, and in this regard it will benoted that due to the slots 5 and 6 being of similar construction, the seats 10 can be engaged with the end walls of either 69 slot, thereby providing for reversibility of the member 7 enabling same to be snapped into engagement with or secured to either the connecter section 1 as depicted in Figs. 1 and 2, or secured to the connecter section 2, as

illustrated in Fig. 4.

Thus, the invention enables the suspension member to be interchangeably secured to either connecter section, as desired, so that in the use of Fig. 1, the loop 9 is secured to 70 the ceiling and the fixture supported from hook 8, or in the use of Fig. 4, the member is supported by its hook 8 from the ceiling and the fixture from the loop 9.

In the modified form of the invention illustrated in Fig. 5 it will be noted that a link-like supporting member 10 is employed, which member has straight parallel sides, the latter being formed so as to pass freely through the slots in the connecter members 1 and 2 although it may also be formed to have close frictional engagement with the end Walls of the slots 5 and 6, if desired, thus enabling the reversibility of the sections 1 and 2, as described in connection with the prefer-red form of the invention. It will also be noted that with the link 10 being formed to pass freely through the slots no force is required to eltect such passage through to provide ready assembly of the parts and en- Y gagement with the fixture or the ceiling support. In the form of Fig. 5, it will be apparent that each of the ends of the member 10 is alike and that such ends can be interchangeably used in supporting the member from the ceiling and in supporting the lighting fixture therefrom.

What is claimed is 1. in combination with a pair of separable connecter sections each having a web formed 109 with an elongated slot providing end walls, a member extending through the connecter and having a loop on one end the opposite sides of which are formed with concave seats formed to be snapped into engagement with the end walls defining the slots of either connecter section, and a hook on the other end of the member extending beyond the adjacent connecter section.

2-. In combination with a pair of separable conneoter sections each having a web formed with an elongated slot providing end walls, a v

member extending through the connecter and having a loop on one end, the opposite sides of which are formed with concaved seats formed to be snapped into engagement with the end walls defining the slots of either connecter section, and means on the other end of the member extending beyond the adjacent connecter section to support a lighting fixture.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

HENRY DOLIER, JR. 

